Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Convicted of assault with force during an attempted rape, Robert C. Jordan Jr. was sent to California's Soledad prison in 1958 for an "indeterminate" sentence of six months to ten years-with a chance for early parole if he behaved. He did not. By last year, Jordan was a familiar tenant of Soledad's Adjustment Center, in what the prison calls a "strip cell" for "incorrigibles...
...line up on one side or the other, Nasser's or Feisal's. Nasser is still the name to conjure with in the streets of the Middle East, but Feisal can offer hard cash to his allies. In addition to helping the Yemeni royalists, he is supporting Jordan's King Hussein with millions of dollars for everything from road building to weapons. He is also strengthening Saudi Arabia's own defenses with purchases of some $1.5 billion in military hardware in case a fight with Nasser should ever be necessary...
...Line-Up. In such a showdown, Nasser could count on Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Sallal's part of Yemen-all more or less socialist, Soviet-armed regimes. Feisal would have on his side Western-equipped Jordan, Bahrain, the tiny sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, and perhaps Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Non-Arab Iran, whose Shah despises Nasser, would probably aid Feisal enthusiastically. Anxious to remain neutral are Lebanon, Libya and the Sudan. But it may never come to a showdown. The meeting around a fire...
...Islamic" summit meeting next March that would theoretically include all Moslems, but clearly had the aim of rallying anti-Nasser leaders into a single alliance. So far, Feisal has strong support from non-Arab but strongly Moslem Iran, as well as Tunisia; he also enjoys sympathy from Jordan, Morocco and Kuwait. This month the King plans to visit Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel and, in September, Morocco's King Hassan II and possibly Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba...
...there is dire necessity for Arab summit conferences, in order to unify the Arab effort." Moreover, said Feisal, his country, which is the Middle East's second highest contributor ($22.4 million) to Arab summit organizations, would refuse further payments unless the meeting were held. In the end, only Jordan rallied to Feisal's side, and the Arab League had no choice but to postpone the meeting. Undaunted, Feisal began pressing even harder for his Islamic summit next spring. "Perhaps," sighed one Saudi Cabinet member, "Allah will succeed where Arabs have failed...